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Eight Tennessee counties not licensing same-sex marriages

A county clerk marriage license station is seen in this file photo.
A county clerk marriage license station is seen in this file photo. A county clerk marriage license station is seen in this file photo.
photo A county clerk marriage license station is seen in this file photo.

Almost all of Tennessee’s county clerks were issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples Monday, the second business day after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the state’s ban.

Eighty-seven of the Volunteer State’s 95 counties were complying with the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling, either having issued licenses or saying they would, according to Chris Sanders, executive director of the Tennessee Equality Project.

Eight counties have not yet started to issue licenses mostly due to technical hurdles with paperwork and computer upgrades, he said.

Read more from our news partners at The Tennessean.